19.5" x 19.5"
free pieced
machine pieced and quilted
Four Way Swap is a doll quilt swap between laurajay, lucyellen06, calamity kim and myself. I discussed how our little group came about in the previous post.
Lucyellen06 finally opened her package. I'm glad she did.
The rules for this round were:
1. include birds
2. include neutrals
3. include recipient's color of choice (aqua for lucyellen06)
4. include liberated piecing (John easily figured out that this was the rule that I contributed - hee)
It took me awhile to decide what to make for Lucyellen06. I changed my mind several times. And as I was looking through my favorites for inspiration, I came across this quilt. I knew that the birds were paper pieced, but as I talked about earlier, simple paper pieced patterns are great for liberating/free piecing. So I thought that I would make a bird for each of us in the quilt using each quilter's "color of choice" from our rules. Lu picked aqua, Laurajay picked red and/or aqua, Kim pick blue/aqua and I picked red. And a central liberated star to represent our friendship.
It was a pleasure making this quilt for you lu!
I wonder what kim's will look like.....
stay tuned!
Things will be quiet around here for the next week. The kids and I are going out of town for the week. Billy will join us later. Wonder where we are going? The beach! Hate me yet?
15 comments:
Aww, this is cute! Have fun at the beach (and yes, I hate you!).
wonderful birds, cute quilt. you did great. again. enjoy the beach!!!
Oh my gosh, this is wonderful! Love those birds!
These birds are fantastic! I hope you have fun at the beach.:)
The birds are great. Have fun at the beach, take your coats.
So cute - love those little birds! i do miss the beach . . .
I just love the birds. I might try something like that quilt.
tutorial? please??! although i could see why you'd want to keep this one to yourself.
this is so wonderful! I am SO excited to see parts 3 and 4!!!!
another stunner...i'm so jealous...i need to wipe the green off my face!
oh the beach- fun! love this quilt-I am envious...fabulous birds.
Ha, I live 15 minutes from the beach year-round! Love the birds in your quilt!
Adorable quilt-wonderful colorful birds and I like the diamond quilting very much. My college roommate was named Krom.
Sarah ~ I Adore my quilt !! It is hanging in the kitchen at the moment and has received many compliments ! It looks great against the soft blue of my walls and brings a smile whenever I look at it.
Oh, and I've tagged you on my blog to post 7 random things about yourself (I have no idea if you have done this before...) and then tag 7 other people. :)
Lucky you ~
I'm so happy I found your blog. I am inspired by this bird quilt! It is so adorable; I just have to make one for myself!
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